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Effect of additives on the crystallization of cordierite-based glass-ceramics as glazes for floor tiles
2003
Abstract The effect of several additives such as fluxes and/or nucleants on a parent glass with composition located in the primary field of cordierite within the quaternary system CaO–MgO–Al 2 O 3 –SiO 2 has been examined. Crystallization path of glasses was determined by differential thermal analysis (DTA) and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). Pressed pellets of powdered glasses containing different additives were submitted at thermal treatments up to 1200 °C. The microstructural development at several temperatures was followed by field emission scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis. The results shown that additions of TiO 2 as nucleant and/or B 2 O 3 as flux to a…
Crystallization behaviour and microstructural development in ZrSiO 4 and V-ZrSiO 4 solid solutions from colloidal gels
2000
Abstract Zircon and vanadium-doped zircon blue pigments were prepared by heat treatment of gel precursors. Gels with nominal compositions Vx-ZrSiO4 with x=0.0, 0.002, 0.004, 0.02 and 0.2 were prepared by formation of a silica coating on zirconia colloidal particles previously obtained. The crystallization behavior and microstructural evolution were studied using X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), energy dispersive X-rays microanalysis (EDX), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and selected area electron diffraction (SAED). The results indicated that the vanadia loading in the precursor gels speeds up the crystallization of the vanadium-co…
Precursor-based synthetic pathways to nanometer NdNiO3−x particles
1993
Abstract The oxygen deficient neodymium nickel perovskite, NdNiO3−x, has been obtained by different low temperature-low oxygen pressure synthetic procedures. Besides a solid-matrix based route, both ordered and disordered chemical-precursors have been used as starting products. X-ray powder diffraction shows that the structure of this defective perovskite is orthorhombic. The study of the grain morphology of the products as resulting from the different synthetic procedures indicates that the main parameter determining the average particle size, which is in the nanometer range, is the maximum temperature achieved in the synthesis. Resistivity and DSC measurements show the existence of a meta…
Low-temperature Ti-containing 3:2 and 2:1 mullite nanocrystals from single-phase gels
2007
Abstract TiO 2 -containig single-phase gels with (Al 2 O 3 + TiO 2 )/(SiO 2 ) molar ratios 3/2 and 2/1 were prepared by gelling mixtures of aluminium nitrate, tetraethylorthosilicate and titanium isopropoxide. Gels were fast heated at several temperatures up to 1100 °C. Dried and heated gels were characterized by differential thermal analysis (DTA), magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (MAS-NMR), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), and scanning and transmission electron microscopies (SEM and TEM). Coupled DTA and XRD results of gels fast heated at 900 °C showed the crystallisation of two mullites as well as a small amount of alumina-silica spinel. 27 Al NMR spectra showed the format…
An X-ray powder diffraction study of the microstructural evolution on heating 3:2 and 2:1 mullite single-phase gels
2006
Single-phase gels with compositions 3Al2O3·2SiO2 and 2Al2O3·SiO2 were prepared by gelling mixtures of aluminium nitrate and tetraethylorthosilicate. Gels were fast heated at different temperatures between 900°C and 1600°C. The phase transformation and microstructural changes of both mullite precursor gels over the temperature range were followed by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), lattice parameter determination (LP), and scanning and transmission electron microscopies (SEM and TEM). The distribution of crystallite sizes and strains were determined by linewidth refinements of X-ray diffraction patterns using the integral breadth method of Langford and the Warren-Averbach analysis. XRD of bot…
Structure and properties of CoMnSb in the context of half-metallic ferromagnetism
2006
Although its X-ray powder diffraction patterns show a superstructure, the compound CoMnSb, like the well-known half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb, is often referred to the category of half-metallic ferromagnets with $C{1}_{b}$ structure. Our study assigns CoMnSb to space group $Fm\overline{3}m$. The crystal structure of CoMnSb can be represented as an alternation of ${\mathrm{Co}}_{2}\mathrm{Mn}\mathrm{Sb}$ and MnSb structural units, and, in contrast to NiMnSb, displays three Mn and two Sb positions in the elementary cell. The presence of nonequivalent antimony and manganese positions was verified using NMR and M\"ossbauer spectroscopic measurements. Band-structure calculations based on a proposed s…
Synthesis and characterization of ZnO/ZnS/MoS2 core-shell nanowires
2017
The present research was supported by the Latvian National Research Program IMIS2 . Authors are grateful for Dr. Robert Kalendarev and Martins Zubkins for assistance in magnetron sputtering, Dr. Krisjanis Smits for TEM measurements, Dr. Roberts Zabels for AFM measurements and Reinis Ignatans for XRD measurements.
Template-free synthesis and structural evolution of discrete hydroxycancrinite zeolite nanorods from high-concentration hydrogels.
2017
We report the synthesis and characterization of hydroxycancrinite zeolite nanorods by a simple hydrothermal treatment of aluminosilicate hydrogels at high concentrations of precursors without the use of structure-directing agents. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis reveals that cancrinite nanorods, with lengths of 200-800 nm and diameters of 30-50 nm, exhibit a hexagonal morphology and are elongated along the crystallographic c direction. The powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and TEM studies revealed sequential events of hydrogel formation, the formation of aggregated sodalite nuclei, the conversion of sodalite to cancrinite and finally the gro…
Diffraction anomale et composition cationique d'une titanomagnétite nanométrique
2000
Les ferrites substitues au titane constituent des materiaux interessants pour aller vers la comprehension des reactions d'oxydo-reduction qui ont lieu dans ces composes de structure spinelle. Ces composes synthetises par chimie douce on ete etudies in-situ par diffraction anomale dans diverses conditions. Dans le cas particulier du compose Fe 2.5 Ti 0.5 O 4 , les premiers resultats montrent que cette methode de synthese ne permet pas d'elaborer directement le ferrite avec la composition esperee. En effet l'analyse structurale met en evidence un taux de titane bien inferieur a 0.5 alors que d'autres techniques,(analyse ICP, methode de Poix), confirment ce taux de substitution.